[LINK] biometrics paper

[Jan Whitaker]

If anyone is after a primer on biometric recognition, check this out.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12720
You can read it online or download or buy a paper copy. There is an 
interesting review of the history of the terms and tracing the 
emergence of identification of humans by their biological 
characteristics, like finger prints, and their relationship to the 
field of statistics and eugenics through the work of Galton. Fascinating.

As an aside, I stumbled across this site, www.nap.edu as a free 
source of academic papers and monographs. Worth browsing.

Jan


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at janwhitaker.com

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how 
do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
~Margaret Atwood, writer

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